Akinwumi Adesina

Akinwumi Ayodeji Adesina, "a native of Nigeria, is a distinguished agricultural economist with more than 20 years of professional experience in African agriculture. He holds a B.Sc. in agricultural economics (First Class Honors) from the Universiy of Ife, Nigeria, and a Ph.D. in agricultural economics from Purdue University, USA. He has worked in senior research positions at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), the West Africa Rice Development Association (WARDA), and the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA). In 1998 he joined the Rockefeller Foundation, New York, as a senior scientist for Africa and later served as the representative for Southern Africa, based in Harare, Zimbabwe. He currently leads the foundation's program on markets to raise incomes of poor farmers in Africa."


 * Vice President for Policy and Partnerships, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa